Hints and tips:
...Last week Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa escalated a spat with López Obrador by ordering police to storm Mexico’s embassy in Quito, violating diplomatic protocols....
...Blocking Johnson from standing for a seat “would look very petty, and one thing we know about Rishi Sunak — I’m not his greatest admirer, but — he is not petty,” said Rees-Mogg....
...I listened to Tom Petty as I climbed rolling golden hills and pine-covered mountains while trains ran in the distance....
...He analyses grant (as distinct from petty) corruption....
...Of 34 managing partners and co-founders at CVC, just one is female: Cathrin Petty, who joined from JPMorgan in 2016, shortly after the legal complaint was filed....
...For years, the two men have done everything together: ski club, pledging the same fraternity, running petty antics....
...“Everything suggested a storm about to break, and yet it never came....
...Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp, has compared the past support tech platforms gave news media to “petty patronage”. But the group’s view has shifted as platforms changed tack....
...As for the veep herself: Selina is vain, petty, pathologically insensitive (“There are going to be choices to make — like Sophie’s Choice choices, except more important because they’re about me”)....
...As if life weren’t its own personalized storm.”...
...Few people want to confront a massive problem when there are petty scores to settle. This works on a global level as well as a personal one....
...Elsewhere, there are vegetable farms, marigold farms, cowsheds, ambitious godmen starting fledgling ashrams, gangs of pickpockets and petty criminals, slowly gentrifying concrete colonies pushing illegally...
...(FT) Storm in a chalice? The Catholic Church faces a twofold crisis: sexual abuse and a breakdown of confidence in its leadership....
...The Peckishness helps persuade you to the hero’s side, even though this once-prizewinning novelist now turned downscale private detective, who uses gambling and petty extortion to pay child-support bills...
...Why did a 10-minute phone call provoke such a storm?...
...“We should not retreat into the harbour whenever we encounter a storm or we will never reach the opposite shore.”...
...“Ikea is still acting petty and narrow-minded, making this incident appear more and more like a farce. Who is harmed by the arrogance and stubbornness that Ikea has displayed in China?”...
...Storms brewed quickly, stirring up the ocean and sending the decks tilting at crazy angles....
...“But rather than discussing these matters, all these petty procedural issues came out — such as who has to be invited or not — raised by the Syrian government.”...
...A storm tore one of the gnarly oak trees out of the ground....
...below shows the net balance on America’s secondary income account as a share of national income: Aside from the giant spike associated with coalition payments to the US government during Operation Desert Storm...
...Aside from being the author’s aunt, Gladys appears in Ian Kershaw’s To Hell and Back to illustrate the petty hardships of the postwar period — hardships that could often be enough to make ordinary Britons...
...Either way they are usually settled out of court, as with the claim by veteran rocker Tom Petty against a song by last year’s breakout British star Sam Smith, which ended with Mr Petty accepting a songwriting...
...The Indian government responded with a series of petty and bullying restrictions on the activities of US diplomats in Delhi....
...The next month the façade of the building blew down in a storm. Last year. Mr Gomes paid R$3m to have Plácido Domingo, the Spanish tenor, open an events centre....
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